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OTC 1934 (Alan 2nd from right)
OTC NCOs 1934 (Alan front row right)
Alan left school in the September of 1935 and was immediately elected to an honorary post on the Committee of the Old Derbeian Society, then under the eminent presidency of the Rev. Walter Western. Peter Haldenby, Alan’s younger brother, then entered the school at the very moment his elder brother left.
From Derby School he went straight into articles with a local law firm to train as a solicitor and in October 1939 joined the firm of Holbrook, Gretton and Richardson in Derby. However, such was the international situation that he enlisted in the Territorial Army and, no doubt due to his earlier training with the OTC, was commissioned in 1940 from an Officer Training Unit into the Royal Artillery and posted to the 135th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment which was part of the Territorial 18th Eastern Division which spent its first year training in England and preparing to repel an expected German invasion. The 135th was known as a “very aristocratic set-up and included several members of the House of Peers.” Also included amongst its infantry
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